Word: user
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neither a banana eater nor "user," I remind you that gorillas also think bananas are for eating. Judging from the antics of some of the parade's participants, I would say that this species was well represented on Fifth Avenue...
...letter then goes on to cite the testimony of one user of LSD who reports that he was "constantly hallucinated and utterly confused" from his use of the drug. Getting no help from UHS, the individual then "took more, a great deal more, LSD and marijuana. . .and my so called psychosis disappeared...
...when light bulbs turn winter into spring in the greenhouses, when man's best-hidden viscera are laid bare and shining beneath the surgeon's spotlights, when murders have been witnessed on the television screen, and when the newest mind-expanding drug, in the words of one user, "makes your body feel like a conductor for tens of thousands of volts...
Until now, the policy of the University has been either to send "drug-users" to the Health Center, or put them on probation, or both. Although sending a drug-user to the university psychiatrists implies that all use of drugs represents a form of mental illness (which is clearly not always the case) it is infinitely preferable to treating drug use as a crime...
...know what's going to happen, don't you?" Felix Donawa asks the pretty, 20-year-old heroin user. "You're going to be out on the street turning tricks." "Let me see your hands," demands another questioner. "No needle marks. Not yet, anyway. You're lucky so far," he continues, then grimly goes into the details of how addicts have to keep looking for new veins to shoot heroin into as old ones collapse. "How would you like it, having to shoot up in your neck?" "I wouldn't," mumbles the girl...